deceptive

[ dih-sep-tiv ]

/ dɪˈsɛp tɪv /

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adjective

apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.

perceptually misleading: It looks like a curved line, but it's deceptive.

Origin of deceptive

1605–15; < Medieval Latin dēceptīvus, equivalent to Latin dēcept(us) (see deception) + -īvus -ive

SYNONYMS FOR deceptive

1 delusive, fallacious, specious.

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OTHER WORDS FROM deceptive

de·cep·tive·ly, adverb de·cep·tive·ness, noun non·de·cep·tive, adjective non·de·cep·tive·ly, adverb

non·de·cep·tive·ness, noun un·de·cep·tive, adjective un·de·cep·tive·ly, adverb un·de·cep·tive·ness, noun

Words nearby deceptive

decentralized processing, decentre, deception, deception bed, deception table, deceptive, deceptive cadence, decerebrate, decerebration, decern, decertify

Example sentences from the Web for deceptively

Ernst won her race for Montgomery County auditor, a deceptively powerful position in local Hawkeye State politics, in 2005.

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She is a woman with strong, provocative, and deceptively intuitive opinions.

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Watercolors are strikingly identical and the charcoal works, done with color pencil, are deceptively perfect.

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Like a lot of great bookstores, on the outside, Green Apple is deceptively simple, humble, even misleading.

Dave Eggers’s Favorite Bookstore: Green Apple Books, San Francisco |Dave Eggers |November 13, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

The deceptively marketed products included credit score tracking, identify theft protection, and payment protection.

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A small, clear stream flowed below it to the left, so deceptively clear that it reflected the hillside in all its natural tints.

Yiddish Tales |Various
With a deceptively firm step she entered a room to wonder at.

Red Masquerade |Louis Joseph Vance
He was moon-faced, dark, with short brown hair and a deceptively sleepy look.

First on the Moon |Jeff Sutton
It was a hellishly unbuildable and deceptively simple gadget, that tracer.

Zero Data |Charles Saphro
The trees on both sides were deceptively peaceful, as though nothing violent could possibly occur here.

The Lost Wagon |James Arthur Kjelgaard

British Dictionary definitions for deceptively

deceptive

/ (dɪˈsɛptɪv) /

adjective

likely or designed to deceive; misleading appearances can be deceptive

music (of a cadence) another word for interrupted (def. 3)

Derived forms of deceptive

deceptively, adverb deceptiveness, noun

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